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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-1-6
pubmed:abstractText
The numbers and serotypes of Clostridium perfringens present in the faeces of three groups of hospital patients and young healthy laboratory workers were examined in studies lasting between 10 and 13 weeks. In one hospital some long-stay geriatric patients carried relatively high numbers of C. perfringens (greater than 10(7)/g) most of the time and it was not unusual in any one week for the majority of these patients to carry the same serotype(s). However, the numbers of C. perfringens in the faeces of young long-stay patients in the same hospital were in the range of 10(3)-10(4)/g and carriage of common serotypes was not observed. These results were similar to the findings with the young laboratory workers. This investigation indicates that two of the laboratory criteria often used in the investigation of C. perfringens food poisoning, i.e. faecal counts of greater than or equal to 10(5) C. perfringens/g and patients carrying the same serological type need to be interpreted with caution with suspected outbreaks involving some groups of geriatric long-stay hospital patients.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0022-1724
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
277-88
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Faecal carriage of Clostridium perfringens.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article